The usual columns are all returning including the Education Station, he Dev Lead Trenches and Security Corner. You can check out this issue and the rest of the articles on the issue's page on the php[archtect] website. If you'd like a sample of what's inside, be sure to check out this free article from (Eric Mann* covering one of the latest security-related features added in PHP 7.2: native libsodium support.

Headless and Serverless: Writing Modern PHP Applications by Eugene Tulika

All of the usual columns are returning too including the "Education Station", "Community Corner" and "Artisanal". This month's issue is completely free to give you an idea of what kind of content you can expect from the magazine. You can pick up a copy of your own (or subscribe for the year) over on the php[architect] site.

php[architect] magazine has an announcement on their site about the release of the latest edition of the publication, the October 2017 issue: Composing Software.

Articles in this month's edition include:

Managing Private Dependencies by Andrew Cassell.

Alain Schlesser writes about Uncommon Ab(Uses) of Composer.

Read about Building Software that Lasts by Susanne Moog.

Continue Building Software that Lasts by Edward Barnard.

The usual columns return as well - Education Station, Artisanal, The Dev Lead Trenches (and many more). You can pick up a copy of your own directly from the site, either opting to get the single issue or a year-long subscription. If you want to "try before you buy" and see what the content is like, you can check out this free article about managing private Composer dependencies.

Requiring users to log in individually to all the websites they need for their work is more than merely annoying: It wastes a lot of time and turns maintaining log-in credentials and permissions into a nightmare for the administrative staff. Let’s see if we can fix that with a single sign-on service.

The article talks about the basics of single sign on and what kind of benefits it brings to the table. They also talk about the single point of failure it introduces and some of the problems that can cause. The article then discusses the choices involved in implementing it: Should it support authentication, authorization or both? Should OAuth be involved? What about SAML? Other alternatives are also offered including JWTs, tokens/callbacks and client side certificates. The article ends with the suggestion that a proxied approach, one that authenticates on the first request but the session is then trusted by other services, is one of the better ways to go (but isn't without its own issues either).

php[architect] magazine has released their latest issue with a focus on security, authentication and authorization for August 2017 - Who Goes There:

You’ve no doubt heard HTTP is stateless, meaning a web server doesn’t know anything from one request to the next for the same client. Beyond news and information sites, however, a web application typically will need to know who you are and what you can do with it to be useful. In this issue, we look at effectively handling authentication and authorization.

Many of the usual columns are back this month including the Education Station, Security Corner and the Community corner. Head over to the php[architect] website for more information about this latest issue and to pick up a copy of your very own!

php[architect] magazine has posted their latest issue, the July 2017 edition of the magazine - Safe at Speed:

“Safe at Speed” includes articles on:

Setting up infrastructure from Zero to Cloud in One Hour With the Google Cloud by Robert Aboukhalil.

Geogriana Gligor writes on Smart, Scalable Content Distribution.

Brush up your front end skills with Modern JavaScript: Moving Beyond jQuery by Derek Binkley.

Learn how and why we must of safety first when writing code in The Train Wreck: When Safety Is Discretionary by Ed Barnard .

The regular columns are all returning too including Community Corner and a new column from Chris Tankersley called "The Dev Lead Trenches". You can get more information about this latest issue, pick up a free article and get a copy of your own from the php|architect site.

On the php[architect] site today they've posted an article from their latest issue, "Secure By Design" (June 2017) by Mark Niebergall - the "Cybersecurity State of the Union".

The cybersecurity landscape is continuously changing as new threats appear and attackers adapt. Data breaches, cyber attacks, identity theft, and scams show up regularly in the news and can have a significant negative impact to those affected by them. Keeping up with the latest cyber security trends, understanding the threats, and keeping applications secure takes an investment of time and effort.

In this article, we will review the current state of cybersecurity. Notable attacks will be highlighted, trends in attacks will be analyzed, strategies to secure projects will be identified, and PHP security-related features that can help increase application security will be covered.

You can read the article either there on the site or as a free PDF. If you enjoy the article, be sure to check out the other topics in this latest issue and pick up a copy of your own.

We previously demonstrated the proper way to get started with Sulu CMS by setting up a Hello World installation on a Vagrant machine. Simple stuff, but can be tricky.

[...] This time we’ll look into basic Sulu terminology, explain how content is formed, created, stored, and cached, and look into building a simple online magazine with different locales (languages).

The tutorial then covers pages and page templates including what the Twig markup looks like, how to work with them in the UI and the end result of their sample "Hello world" page. There's a brief section about caching before he moves into the main part of the tutorial: the creation of the magazine. He covers the use of Jackalope, ElasticSearch and the ArticleBundle and how to get them up, running and playing nicely together. The article wraps up with a look at locales and how they work in the Sulu setup.

There's also the usual set of columns returning this month covering topics like image manipulation, burnout and spurring community involvement. If you're interested in the magazine but want a "try before you buy", check out the free article for this month (the "State of the Union"). If you enjoy the article or just want to pick up a copy of the issue to call your own, you can order a print or digital copy directly from the php[architect] site.